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Blackjack – Opposition Betting 4
About the only time I might be suspected of counting is when I make my jump from a nickel to a couple hundred bucks. Before and after that, I usually raise and lower my bets in reverse.
A lot of times I'll jump my bets around according to whether I'm winning or losing. Often, I mix up my colors and have reds, greens and black in the same stack. It drives dealers nuts.
Part of my method is to look like I just don't have much of a method. Sometimes I bet high off the top of the shoe. For the most part, I play nickels with low counts and greens and blacks with high counts. When I make my big jump, I wait until the time seems right for it. If the count is high and I've only got a nickel riding on the bet, I'm likely to split fours or fives, or maybe stand on a twelve against a ten. After a play like that, dealers love to see you start playing with real money. You see, they know I've got the greens and blacks. I'm sitting there with half a rack of them in front of me. I don't make foolish plays when I'm betting high, though.
I've watched dozens of counters get 86'd. Most of them are young. They always spread from one to four. They're so easy to spot it's laughable. Sometimes I think my best camouflage is that I'm old and bald. My second best camouflage might be that I've got a lot of money. Counters look hungry. There's probably not much a young guy can do about this. But still, he can change his one-to-four spread to something that looks less intelligent. All the books say spread from 1 to 4 or 1 to 8. There's not a pit boss in Vegas who hasn't read most of these books. When you play like the books say, you're advertising your smarts.
One time I was sitting with two counters for about half an hour. During the course of that half hour, I'd placed bets as low as a nickel and as high as seven or eight hundred bucks. They were both spreading quarters from one-to-four. They keep nudging each other when I'd make a stupid play. Once I insured my natural at a low count. I had two nickels on the table. Then the true count went up to about +9 or +10 real fast. I hit my four-card sixteen against the dealer's five and busted. I guess these guys got brave then because both of them raised their next bets to eight chips. Frankly, I was having a hard time not laughing, myself. Their bets had been so identical since they'd sat down, they were like the Bobbsey Twins.
The pit boss jumped in at that point. He went through the discards and politely told these two guys to hit the road. They were upset. One of them remarked that it should be illegal for casinos to only deal to stupid players. The remark was directed at me. They ended up getting barred.
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